Today ATI Technologies announced new RADEON X800 (R420) architecture and RADEON X800 XT and RADEON X800 PRO video processors. In this article we are going to test them against their primary rival, NV40 from NVIDIA in 25 contemporary gaming benchmarks. Find out who the winner is!

Star Wars: Knights of The Old Repubilc

The game wouldn’t run on GeForce card with the new ForceWare drivers even despite the fact that we used the last patch version. Therefore, we are offering you the results obtained on ATI Technologies’ graphics cards only.

So far I cannot say anything definite about the results: we have to wait for the new ForceWare version to arrive first. Otherwise we will not be able to draw any conclusions about the performance of the new NVIDIA based graphics cards.